Ocarina Surges To Top Paid iPhone App Position — Ocarina, the second iPhone application from Silicon Valley based Smule, has surged to the top spot on the iPhone App store just a little over a week after launching (you can download it here for $.99). — Why?

Yahoo!s Five Biggest Mistakes — The Web portal's employees open up (a little) about the company's problems. — Sirens blared outside Yahoo!'s campus Tuesday, a day after chief executive Jerry Yang said he will step down as the Web portal continues to struggle to gain a grip …

Mint adds SMS access — Personal finance site Mint is getting a useful SMS query capability: You send the word “Bal” or “balance” to short code 696468, and it will send back the balances of your bank and credit accounts. Simple. And potentially useful if you're out and want to know if you have money to pay for or charge an item.

Main BBC channels go live on net — BBC shows including EastEnders, Heroes and Never Mind The Buzzcocks will be available to watch live online from next week, the BBC has announced. — BBC One and BBC Two will be streamed live, - just as BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, CBeebies and BBC News …

STATUS REPORT : STS-126-09 — STS-126 MCC Status Report #09 — Astronauts Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Steve Bowen completed the first of four spacewalks scheduled for Endeavour's mission to the International Space Station today. The spacewalk was the 115th in support of ISS construction.

Sony's digital gamble — The Japanese electronics giant acquired software maker Gracenote to help integrate its TVs, PS3s, and music into the web. — (Fortune Magazine) — Ty Roberts, CTO OF Gracenote, recently took his 8-year-old son to a Jonas Brothers concert.

Developer strikes it rich with iPhone game — (CNN) — With its glassy touch screen, powerful graphics, crisp sound and tilt feature, the iPhone is more than a smart phone for some users — it's a portable entertainment system. — It's also become a potential gold mine for entrepreneurs who create games for the device.